EAN: 9780553381337

A MAN IN FULL - TOM WOLFE KARTONIERT (TB)

The setting is Atlanta  Georgia — a racially mixed  late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth
and wily politicians. The protagonist is Charles Croker  once a college football star  now a
late-middle-aged Atlanta conglomerate king whose outsize ego has at last hit up against
reality. Charlie has a 29 000 acre quail-shooting plantation  a young and demanding second wife
and a half-empty office complex with a staggering load of debt.  Meanwhile  Conrad Hensley 
idealistic young father of two  is laid off from his job at the Croker Global Foods warehouse
near Oakland and finds himself spiraling into the lower depths of the American legal system. 
And back in Atlanta  when star Georgia Tech running back Fareek "the Canon” Fanon  a homegrown
product of the city's slums  is accused of date-raping the daughter of a pillar of the white
establishment  upscale black lawyer Roger White II is asked to represent Fanon and help keep
the city's delicate racial balance from blowing sky-high.  Networks of illegal Asian immigrants
crisscrossing the continent  daily life behind bars  shady real estate syndicates — Wolfe shows
us contemporary America with all the verve  wit  and insight that have made him our most
admired novelist. Charlie Croker's deliverance from his tribulations provides an unforgettable
denouement to the most widely awaited  hilarious and telling novel America has seen in ages —
Tom Wolfe's most outstanding achievement to date.

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